Various Parlor Notes and Quips From The County News
A collage of short items including floods not injuring phonographs, warnings about bent pins in chairs, comments on the Ziegler Arctic expedition, late-night returns, a Sharon man losing 2000 dollars in Boston, advice against carrying large change, praise for US neighbors from Servia to Mexico, John W Gates quips on smoking, Clinton Scollard passes, Prof Weed authorship of a wild flower booklet, Andrew D White urging college training for office holding, Russell Sage versus assessors, Hetty Green, and Morgan portraits on $1000 bills.
Pioneer Guam Baby Girl Heralded as First
The piece notes a baby born in Guam is a girl and jests about Uncle Sam and Samantha. It also hints the new Baltimore mayor is too busy for social duties, suggesting citizens might overlook it if duties are fulfilled.
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Guam
Sam Ong
Auns
Samantha
Baltimore
Professor Smith Denouncing Soda Water Faces Urgency
Prof. Smith of the University of Chicago questions soda water on moral grounds. The remark is noted as timely but not to halt current public discourse.
Passaic Father of Ten Attracts Comment From President
A 58 year old Passaic man with ten children, eight of whom arrived in five couples, risks presidential notice if he continues. On the Kearsarge Emperor William spoke with Scout Scanlon. The first stomach arose from a single cell, a precursor to modern bacteria. Some question the taste of mourning envelopes bearing a black stamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Passaic
Australian claims invention may spark rainmaking debate
An Australian citizen asserts possession of a perfect rainmaking device and suggests its potential, but experts warn he should avoid testing it in the United States this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Divorce Defense Quip Echoes Pet Rivalry
In a Brooklyn divorce defense a husband testified his wife cared more for their pet dog than him. The remark evokes Mme de Stael who quipped that the more she sees of men the more she likes dogs.
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Brooklyn
Mme. de Stael
Watterson decries drive to oust USD head over past drink
Henry Watterson attacks efforts to depose University of South Dakota president Droppers for a prior drink, calling the move an attack on American liberties and a misuse of power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Watterson
President Droppers
University of South Dakota
Colombia Should Gauge U S View BeforeGold Offer
The article argues Colombia should spend money to learn the U S reaction before accepting a $10 million gold proposal. It also notes the death of Lady Jane Harriett Ellice at age eighty four in London, the last of Queen Victoria’s twelve bridesmaids from the 1840 wedding.
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Colombia
Washington
Uncle Sam
Jane Harriett Ellice
Queen Victoria
London
British troops lauded in Somaliland tour at Jibatil and Damot
The piece notes the British poet laureate singing of British troops in Somaliland as they rallied to the flag at Jibatil Damot Bohodle and other Mudgug district points. It also reports Millionaire Walsh’s wife losing about sixty trunks en route from Washington to a Massachusetts cottage and asks for information.
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Somaliland
Jibatil
Damot
Bohodle
Mudgug
Walsh
Washington
Massachusetts
King Peter and His Ministers Speak of Long Live the King
The passage notes King Peter's sensitivity to irony in ministers cries of long live the king. It suggests ministers shape how far such proclamations will come true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
King
Jail Delivery in Grand Forks Free the Four Notorious Crim
During a temporary official absence a jail break freed four of the Northwest’s worst criminals. Officer Jarvis captured two suspects later tied to jewelry thefts in Winnipeg. An accomplice used an ice pick to pry open the jail chief’s private box, seize keys, and release the inmates before fleeing toward Crookston.
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Fredom
Grand Forks
N. 1
City
Northwest
Jarvis
Winnipeg
Crooks'on Ce
Mallory
Washington Notes spark new war era appointments and plagues abroad
The president plans General Robert Shaw Oliver as assistant secretary of war to replace the resigned Col William Carey Sanger. Smithsonian progress on the Langtry aerodrome advances toward practical use. Chile reports plague spread to most ports and postal service breakdown in Santiago. Treasury issues warrants to Minnesota for war volunteer support costs. Baltimore indicts Frank Maloney for shooting his wife in a dream attack. Syracuse wound case targets molders' union picket. Cornwall bank officer Cummin arrested for 45000 theft. Wardlow Steel manager Pilditch faces grand larceny. 450 striking masons halt Metro water system in Clinton Massachusetts with a man thrown in river rescued. Oakland’s Lavina Wheeler dies at 102. Pasco arraigned for June forest fires and timber theft. New York arrest for forged union card details.
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Washington
Robert Shaw Oliver
William Carey Sanger
Supt. Langtry
Smithsonian Institute
Langtry
United States
Wilson
Santiago de Chile
State Department
Santiago
Treasury Department
Minnesota
Spain
Joseph W. Cummin
Cornwall Bank
Newburg
N. Y
Frank S. Pilditch
New York
Wardlow Steel Company
Sheffield
Eng
Clinton
Mass
Lavina Wheeler
Oakland
Cal
Sam Pasco
Lake George
Pasco
Vincent MacGilbray
Jess Larimer
United Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union
Fury of events across empires and wars spark unrest
Freiherr Francis Joseph von Lerch enfeld, godson of the Austrian emperor, is under arrest for fraud. A Waterloo express derailment in Southport leaves eight dead and up to thirty injured. The Nadojka steamer on the Volga is destroyed with twelve burned to death. The Great Western Railway touts a London Plymouth record of 246 miles in 233 minutes. Typhoon in Tonquin devastates Hanoi and Namdin with heavy loss and thousands of native deaths. A statue fund for George Washington is proposed in Britain with St Paul’s Cathedral space offered. A self burning woman is found near Segievo monastery in St. Petersburg. Gil Blas accuses King Peter of leading the Servian conspiracy.
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Freiherr
Francis Joseph von Lerchenfeld
Southport
Waterloo
Eng
Nadojka
Volga
Hishna-Novogoros
Great Western Railway Company of England
London
Plymouth
Hanoi
Namdin
Tonquin
Pilgrim's Club
George Washington
St. Paul's Cathedral
Segievo
St. Petersburg
Belgrade
Gil Blas
Paris
M. de Prevignand
Peter
Casualties and Disasters Report in Brief
A roundup of fatal and injury events: H B Stultz of Louisville fractured a rib from a violent sneeze. Six boys died of tetanus in Pittsburg linked to toy pistols. A freight wreck near Bolivar Pa killed one and injured four. Josie Henry and nurse Miss Ashton drowned at Wading River. Oregon City woolen mills fire losses around 40000. Laffin powder works explosion killed three, injured three. A lightning strike destroyed Rock Lawn summer house in New London. Missouri Pacific fast mail collision near Little Blue killed three and injured fifty. Gold Seeker schooner capsized off Isle of Pines. ten miles offshore. A Marcus Hook tank explosion followed a lightning strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bolivar
Josie Henry
Miss Ashton
Wading River
Long Island
Oregon City Manufacturing Company
Oregon City
Ore
Laffin
Laffin, Pa
Rock Lawn
New London
Conn
Lindley Hoffman Chapin
Missouri Pacific
Fast Mail
Little Blue
Lee’s Summit
Missoufri
Gold Seeker
Diggdon
Liverpool
Isle of Pines
Diverse crime and scandal items sweep 1900s daze
Desperate arrests and deaths across states unfold from Indiana to Wyoming. Desertion charges shatter families as Delights Prentiss and Mary Sands face elopement rumors. A German brewer Joseph Hansel found dead in San Francisco streets. Detroit’s Frank Rogers dead by morphine. A New York divorce decree widens legal rifts. A Mount Vernon bride arraigned for counterfeit checks. Bandits torch and terrify a Wyoming sheep master before fleeing. Rochester’s Father Hendrick named bishop to Cebu.
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Delight Prentiss
F. Prentiss
Mary Sands
Auburn
Ind
Charles Pickett
P. L. Straight
Oro Grande
Santa Fe Road
California
Tehuantepec
State Department
Joseph Hansel
San Francisco
Vallejo
Frank 8. Rogers
William A. Rubee
United States
Rubee
Vienna
Detroit
Mich
Giegerich
Supreme Court of New York
Thomas Hendrick
Rochster
N Y
Cebu
Philippine Islands
Multiple U S Labor Strikes End as Models Showdowns Fade
Freight handlers in Chicago return to work and Bridgeport street railway strike is off after clashes. Four thousand mill workers in Ashland Kentucky and Ironton Ohio end six month walkout. Hawaiian legislature approves eight million dollars, two million above expected receipts. Pacific Commercial Cable plans Manila to Shanghai link. surveys soon. Edith E Bigelow sues Poultney while Rear Admiral Cook recovers in naval hospital. Dredging into Mare Island halts as contractor withdraws. Populists and fusionists call Denver conference for July. Hudson Samson dies in Pittsburgh. Name change bid in Seattle aims to become Karl Turdensjult. Strike insurance bureau opened in Louisville. New Jersey typifies boundary dispute with Nebraska. Irish immigration rises to 24,356 in 1902 03. Wyoming sugar beet project backed by Havemeyers plans large factory.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Ashland Ky
Ironton
Ohio
Pacific Commercial Cable Company
Manila
Shanghai
Giegerich
Supreme Court of New York
Edith E. Bigelow
Poultney Bigelow
Francis A. Cook
Brooklyn
Santiago
James Alton
Charles Quall
Wheatland
Ind
Naval Hospital
San Pablo Bay
Mare Island Navy Yard
J. A. Parker
Texas
Edward Histon
Colorado
Denver
Hudson Samson
United States
Pennsylvania
Middle
Far West
Pittsburg
John Anderson
Frederick VII
Denmark
Karl Christian Frederick Vascen Turdensjult
Seattle
Wash
Anderson
Strike Insurance Company
Manufacturers’ Association
New Orleans
Louisville
W. C. Jones
Chancellor McGee
Trenton
N. J
Metropolitan Museum of Art of
New York
New York City
Paterson
Jacob Rogers
Museum
Ellis Island
Emerald Isle
New Jersey
Laramie County
Wyo
Havemeyers
Fort Snelling to Become Major U S Military Post
St Paul July 19 Fort Snelling will be enlarged to house more troops and serve as a copot or distributing post for the Dakota department. A congressional military affairs committee tour, led by Col. George E. Pond, endorsed the improvements and future needs.
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Fort Snelling
United States
Department of Dakota
Congressional Committee On Military Affairs of
House
George E. Pond
Valuable horses burned in Sparta fire
Sparta Wisconsin July 19 fire destroyed the Americ an house barn and contents. Three valuable stallions perished in the flames. Firebugs suspected due to disabled harnesses. Landlord Sias claims to know the guilty party and expects arrests. Total loss around $8,000.
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Sparta
Wis
Sias
Silas
Range cattle praised after Dakota inspection tour
E. W. Speed reports cattle in western South Dakota looking excellent after a ten day range trip to the Moreau River and Devil's Tower area. He notes knee high grass, abundant water, and rapid beef growth, representing a North Western range bank's livestock interests.
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South Dakota
Belle Fourche
S. D
Devil's Tower
Wyoming
E. W. Speed
Speed
South Omaha
Circus Tent Men Desert to Work Harvest Fields
The Forepaugh & Sell Bros circus lost about 200 men deserting for South Dakota harvest work. Upon arrival in Sioux City Iowa on July 19 they hired about 100 boys of all ages to help set up. Some delay occurred but performance continued.
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Sioux City
Iowa
South Dakota
Forepaugh & Sélls Bros.’ Circus
Farm Laborer Impaled on Fork in Iowa Accident
Winona July 19. John Nichols of Saratoga, working on a farm near Pilot Mound, fell from a hay load and was impaled on a pitchfork. The tines passed through his abdomen and doctors fear he may not survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona
John Nichols
Saratoga
Pilot Mound
Confidence man prowls Red Wing with forged checks
A smooth confidence man known as C. B. Reynolds is sought by authorities in Red Wing Minnesota after passing a worthless check at First National Bank and drawing $378 on Wells Fargo Express, with belief he defrauded several others while cultivating ties with local secret society figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Wing
Minn
C. B. Reynolds
First National Bank
Wells-Fargo Express
Crop prospects rise across Aberdeen region in July rains
Aberdeen South Dakota July 19 reports show heavy rains boosting crops. Small grain looks average with few exceptions while corn potatoes millet and grain surge, signaling the best yields in years and improved sentiment among farmers and business men.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Dies From His Burns After Gasoline Tank Explosion
James O Ness a prominent young dentist from Sioux Falls South Dakota died yesterday in Homer Nebraska where he had a temporary office in a hotel two weeks after a gas oil line tank attached to a gold filling apparatus exploded causing severe burns.
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Sioux City
Iowa
James O. Ness
Sioux Falls
Homer
Neb
Conspiracy Against King Charles of Portugal Found
A Cologne Gazette dispatch from Lisbon says several officers of the Fifth Portuguese infantry have been arrested on charges of conspiring against King Charles. They face court martial. The public suspects a broader plot tied to officers cashiered earlier, shedding light on a long discussed threat to the dynasty.
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Charles of
Portugal
Berlin
Cologne
Lisbon
Charles
Pope Suffering From Cancer Worsens Outlook
Report states the pope is gravely ill with cancer and recovery seems impossible though brief survival days may remain. Doctors provide cautious prognosis as conditions deteriorate.
Pope's Illness Weighs Heavily as Death Agony Looms
Rumé July 19. The pope's illness, now in its second week, is diagnosed as a cancer recurrence with pleural effusion. Doctors note severe deterioration and acknowledge that any third operation would aim to ease the death agony rather than save the life, while nursing extends a fragile, uncertain few days.
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Rumé
Woman asphyxiated in bathroom gas incident
In San Francisco on July 18 Mrs. Mary E. Boland wife of W F Boland formerly an attorney at Superior Wisconsin fainted while extinguishing the bathroom gas flame and died from suffocation.
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San Francisco
Mary E. Boland
W. F. Boland
Superior
Wis
Fire Ignores San Luis Obispo as Boys Burn Part of Town
A large fire in San Luis Obispo on July 18 destroyed about one sixth of the business district with losses around 100000 dollars. The blaze was started by boys who built a fire on the creek bank.
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San Luis Obispo
Cal
Fie
Get Well Stay Well Kidney Pills Promote Urine Flow
An old ad notes kidney pills by Dean claim to remove calculi and gravel and relieve symptoms such as high colored urine pain during urination dribbling frequency bed wetting and nervous symptoms. The text cites a testimonial from B C Jones in Newseax Kentucky about improved water flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Doan
Smithland Banter
Jolley Bros
Grand River
B. C. Jowza
Emerald as Big as a Walnut in Mrs Schwab’s Jewelry
The New York Press notes Mrs. Schwab possesses a walnut sized emerald worn in New York as a lavaliere. The heart shaped gem is large and clear, yet it pales beside her diamond necklace with drops festoons and a large solitaire clasp.
Pilfering Sermons At British Museum Reading Room
Report warns readers at the British Museum reading room to guard against theft of sermon volumes. Officials note revived practice of ripping out whole discourses, with Beecher Suurgeon Stopford Brooke and Parker sermons in high demand by thieves.
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British Museum
Beecher
Suurgeon
Stopford
Brooke
Parker
Variale
London Express
Regular Circus at St Paul Summer Carnival Opens
The Midway at the St Paul Summer Carnival offers a vibrant show with a Japanese Tea Garden, high diving, slack-rope king, beauty acts, ballet, animals, trained dogs, and clowns. An Orientals Congress features Arabs, Hindoos, Turks, Chinese and others. Railroads grant excursion rates July 28 and 30, August 2 and 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Congress of All Nations
Indian Babies and the Quiet Devotion of Infants
Edmund Russell notes in Everybody's Magazine that Indian babies cry little, obey spiritual law like a dreaming lotus bud, grow shy before elders, and feel reverence in prayer. He praises familial love, contentment in humble households, and calls childlessness a horror while linking virtue to obedience.
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India
Krishna
Edmund Russell
Everybody’s Magazine
God s Help and Some Wrecks
A passage from McClure s Magazine describes Newfoundland coast wreckers who strip and unload wrecked hulls for profit and employment. It portrays coastal folk relying on wrecks for winter survival with religious sentiment valuing divine aid alongside salvage work.
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Newfoundland Coast
Mer. Power
St. Johns
Hennebury
Trepassey
Cape Race
McClure
Summer Food Tones Up Stomachs and Restores Health
A reader praises Grape-Nuts as a scientific summer cereal that aids a sick stomach and tissue repair. The testimonial claims improved health and vitality after using four teaspoons of Grape-Nuts with fruit, Postum, bread, and eggs. It also notes a salt adjustment and mentions a contest with $7,500 in prizes.
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Wife
Postum Roe Battle
Hetty Greens Retort
A New York tale recalls Hetty Green borrowing and gifting farm aid with sharp wit. A Vermont neighbor tells how she refused to lend a threshing fan while offering a winnowing grain solution. She then outsmarts a neighbor by offering use of a saddle kept in the barn loft.
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Hetty Green
New York
Vermont
New England
False Earthquake Rumor From Mexico City Reaches New York
Private letter from Mexico City recounts a April rumor of a devastating New York earthquake and cyclone. A telegraph query showed no truth, traced to two Spaniards nicknamed Earthquake and Cyclone who had recently visited New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
New York
Lnst
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Casino wager leads to a playful gamble at Monte Carlo
In a vivid scene from a magazine portrayal, John and a companion stroll through bright casino rooms in Monte Carlo. She contemplates a single bet, placing a louis on the age figure 24 as the wheel spins, ending with a click on 28 and a sly remark about honesty and luck.
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John
Monte Carlo
Louis
Reassuring Proposal in The Library Moment
A graceful woman urges George to seek his father's consent in the library as she promises daily hospital visits if needed. The scene conveys reassurance and courting resolve with a hint of delicate drama.
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George
Chicago News
Woman injured in railroad collision demands repairs
A news note cites an elderly Black woman seriously hurt in a railroad collision. Friends urge suing the wealthy railroad corporation for damages, but she insists she wants repairs rather than more compensation.
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New York Times
Passed Up the Chance
Attorney explains that the late wife left several thousand dollars to charity and offers a possible way to break the will. Enpeck doubts success, noting he could not break it while alive and rejects any underground move. Chicago News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enpeck
Chicago News
One Way Enough James Says Wife Comment Poem
A Christmas eve quip from a wife and husband exchange. The wife questions why he stays downtown while drinking and sobers up elsewhere. He replies I see double and avoid thinking of her as twins. Judge quotes about lifting another man's burden to gain strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
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Linton, Evmons County
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North Pole
Sharon
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Servia
Mexico
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Clinton Scollard
Railrroad
New York Agricultural College
Weed
Andrew D. White
Russell Sage
Kearsarge
William
Scanlon
Frank Maloney
George Moore
E. C. Stearns & Co
Syracuse
H. B. Stultz
United Oil Company
Marcus Hook
Chester
Chicago
Cannen
Roland B. Molineaux
Justice Howard
State Prison Department
Gov. Iickey
Nebraska
C. Swenson
F. Q. Robinson
Hartington
F. A. Lundberg
Wayne
Pope
Mazzoni
Rossani
Gibbons
Papacy
Lee
Cardinal Gibbons
Rome
France
Leo XIII
Cardinal Richard
Paria
Helena
Mont
Quinn
Alice McKeavitt
Foster-Milburn Buffalo
J. H. Rindland
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